[AT] OT - Laptop reccomendations

[Steve W.]

The easy way to get top notch support from Dell is simple. Buy your
machine from the business side of the company not the regular consumer
side. Business customers get Gold support which is US based. Not real
hard to define a business with them either. Mikes Tractor Restoration
Support sounds good to me.... They don't ask for much past that anyway.
The other thing with Dell is that on the business side YOU spec out the
machine much more than on the consumer side.

Oh and the reason why Gateway and Emachines are a problem- they are the
same company now. Both of which are going downhill fast.
Lenovo (IBM) still makes a fine machine. HP/Compaq used to be OK but
since the merger they have been sliding downhill due to poor management
skills.

Steve Williams
Near Cooperstown, New York


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Stewart" <edstewart1 at verizon.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Laptop reccomendations


> Hi Mike, I do a lot of computer repair and upgrading here  and build a
> few new systems from scratch for people  also, My advice is to stay
away
> from HP, Dell and  for sure eMachine. Both HP and Dell have very poor
> tech support unless you speak fluent spanish or Indian, and then they
> are to poorly trained to be of much help anyway. I have had many
> eMachines here and they are cheap junk built with the cheapest parts
and
> also want a credit card to talk to them after your year is up. Gateway
> is also not so good when you need parts or help. I would recommend
> Toshiba or IBM myself. as for wireless, there is about any device you
> could want available. I have three computers online here. My
Linux-Unix
> machine, my wifes XP pro machine and my grandkids win98 box on a wired
> ethernet and have several extra cables for machines being worked on
and
> also a wireless hot spot right here. Ed
>
> msm10301 at juno.com wrote:
> > I've been thinking about sidelining our desktop and switching to a
laptop instead. Ideally, I would like to install a wireless router so
that my wife and I are not tied to the desk if we want to surf the web
or read email. My question is, what type should I be looking for, and
what features are important? I know very little about the chip sets used
in laptops, and how they compare with the ones used in desktops. Here's
what I would need the laptop to do. Internet and email (wireless),
Microsoft Office applications, digital camera storage. Our desktop is a
PIII 1GZ and it works just fine for what we do. Any thoughts with
regards to brands/features would be appreciated.
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> >
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